The second of my Valentine's Day movies (aka movies featuring actors I have crushes on) is Beowulf. I'm not using the "reviewer bias" icon in this case because the actor in question is such a small part of the movie that he doesn't really impact my opinion on the movie. Which does admittedly kind of defeat the purpose of this little triple feature ( Read more... )

Today's review: The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

On the surface (or at least, on the poster), the 1957 version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin looks like a typical children’s film for the period. Bright colors, a cheerful demeanor despite the dark roots of the story, and just a general sense that it’s meant to be a fluff piece. Perhaps that was the intent ( Read more... )

It's time for my usual end of the month grab-bag. At the suggestion of fatpie42, I am including Imbd links to the movies so you can get more of a sense of the plot.

( The Princess Comes Across )

I apologize for the delay; as you'll see, I needed to sleep on this review and process the movie.

And so I come to the last film in my Summer of Bogart, a very, very bizarre film called Beat The Devil. I must admit, it's not the best film to end a retrospective on.

Several times as I watched this film, I put my hands to my head and declared to no one ( Read more... )

There will be two reviews in this post, wrapping up the James Project. First is the 90's film Frank And Jesse, which will be the usual length. Then will be the much shorter review of one of the most modern James films, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. The movie didn't give me enough material to work with, so it's done in ( Read more... )